Robert Baker Orford

About

• Completed his education at St Andrews College, Bloemfontein.
• Relocated to Johannesburg where he worked as a clerk on the railways.
• Secretary of the “Old Wanderers Club” 1923-1933.
• After his retirement ran a small dairy herd on a small holding in Florida.

The history of the Wanderers Club 1888-1968

• The history of the Wanderers Club is bound up with the history of the Transvaal and has for decades been a beacon in the international sporting world.
• The men who found their recreation on its fields and broke sporting records were often played in a wider drama.
• Its story is a human drama of great personalities who were as much pioneers of South Africa as enthusiastic sportsmen.

National Archives of South Africa, Transvaal

• DEPOT: TAB
• SOURCE: MHG
• TYPE: LEER
• VOLUME NO: 0
• SYSTEM: 01
• REFERENCE: 3258/56
• PART: 1
• DESCRIPTION: ORFORD, ROBERT BARKER.
• STARTING: 1956
• ENDING: 1956
• REMARKS: SURVIVING SPOUSE AMY AGNES ORFORD.